A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

I don’t know, that is quite the flood of pakeha.

Who needs AI when you have goofy people making masterpieces

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

Regulating monsters. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

I'm not sacrificing air quality water & energy resources for this dogshit

the owner of my bar just showed me this “report” he wrote for sunday school when he was a kid. i am fucking crying

Found this wee chappie floating in the harbour. Cleaned him up, washed him, hair dried & brushed, posted on the local FB community boards. I need to get Tigger reunited with his wee human. Ōtepoti Dunedin

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

This is my cat Aces and me in 50 years

I answered like rimmer. #nzpol

"We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language." (Full size image) Words by @funkittoys.bsky.social, images by @erikamoen.bsky.social (and various uncredited prehistoric artists, craftspeople, and caveperverts) Full post: www.patreon.com/posts/150935...

Everything is like this now One of the battles of our generation will be to destroy all efforts to dismiss truth as a central ingredient for how we process the world I remember when JD Vance said he doesn’t regret lying about Haitians because ‘it started a conversation’ It’s why I hate GenAI too.

Sounds like AI is a huge liability and billionaires are mega-crybaby about it as per. "established studios with a positive track record see a "catastrophic" 40% to 60% drop in sales when they use AI"

While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history

Genuinely fucking wild to me that the response to the fact that when women have total independence they often choose to be happily alone because they don't want to be treated like Bangmaid Mommy, and the response is not "Should I be a better person?" but "let's remove rights from women."

I just read an email and noticed what looked like an entire emailed reply from me. The AI assistant had created an entire multi-paragraph reply from me. I spent 30 minutes researching, and it looks like I can't disable it from my phone, and they've bundled features with it so I *won't* turn it off.

There are some on here that say they'll leave the party if Labour go with NZF. That's dandy for them but they don't have as much to lose as we do, particularly those of us who are disabled Māori trans and poor. What feels like a betrayal to those people will feel like the end of the world for us.

Ha ha ha ha ha how did I miss this?

BOOM! Over 50,000 people have signed the @greenpeace.org.nz petition to protect New Zealand’s conservation land. action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/aot... z

No, what happened was the religious right in the US, after losing on Obergefell v. Hodges, immediately changed tactics. They held huge conferences outlining their plans to roll back LGBT rights as whole by targeting trans people. They didn't skip a beat. We aren't to blame for our own oppression.

When you study international law, you quickly learn how much the US HATES international law - and has, for decades, done everything it can to remain unaccountable. A disgusting nation.

Anyone in nz ao or kikorangi feel free to talk to me about MPI proposed changes with microchipping equines. I'm an individual wanting to get more perspectives as I make a submission - they mean well, but I see a bunch of financial challenges blocking the best case scenario, which I want to help fix.

Sign This Parliamentary Petition Today: petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625... For ppl living with a lifelong disability or chronic illness, this petition asks MSD to remove joint-income testing measures from: ✅️ COMMUNITY SERVICES CARD ✅️ DISABILITY ALLOWANCE ✅️ SUPPORTED LIVING PAYMENT

“my passion is graphic design”

Unless they give cusomters full refunds this should honestly be straight up illegal.

He’s the mafia for the techbros.

NEW The huge, ancient geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert are under threat of destruction by off-road vehicles. New technologies reveal the extent of the damage already done, with an alarming 95% of the geoglyphs in the central area affected. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

we need more education about how the long-term punishment of Haitians is crucial to the white supremacist project a proof-point for them about why you should never rise up, how you can never be free

#OtD 26 Jun 2021 St Ann's church and Chopaka church in Similkameen First Nations land in Canada were burned down. Several churches were set on fire after discoveries of Indigenous children who had been buried in unmarked graves in church-run schools workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e88-...

Ok I have an idea. You ask me a question. Any question you like. I chug 500 mL of water and then tell you you’re very pretty before I make up a random answer, untethered from reality. In return you give me a billion dollars AND I’ll come to your house and leave the fridge door open.

Now that we can say this out loud, when the death toll becomes clear in weeks to come, what prosecutor in Europe will charge fossil fuel executives with corporate manslaughter?

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Techbros: ‘fuck them humans’

Can we please stop pretending that the anti-trans movement was in any way, shape, or form organic, and not engineered by the media and the ruling class who poured billions of dollars into fucking up our lives?

People keep saying “we can just fix hallucinated references”. They don’t understand that genAI hallucinates EVERYTHING: data, quotes, figures, you name it. References are just the easiest to catch. Friends don’t let friends write with genAI.

(while being killed) stay alert everyone this is just a trial balloon for them killing someone more important

On Heard Island (external territory of Australia in southern Indian Ocean), it is now estimated that about 13,000 of a total of 17,000 southern elephant seal pups (over 75%) died from highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (bird flu) in the 2025/2026 breeding season. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it

I took election pamphlets to Foodbank to check everyone was on the roll. It was easy & they were receptive & thankful. They didn’t realise election day enrolment wont happen this year. 1 woman was taken off the roll so appreciated the reminder. Cld you do this somewhere? #nzpol

The myth underlying this is that trans people (trans women specifically) were ever "invisible." We were objects of fascination, scorn, mockery, and fetishizing long before 2014 (for about the entire history of mass media really). What really broke a lot of brains was the idea we deserved dignity

Cops are really good at protecting cops.

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Ambulance services, like hospital, GP, dental and optical care should all be free at the point of delivery and paid for through taxation. Ban private healthcare, along with private education.

Lesbians are typically extremely comfortable with the idea that womanhood takes many different forms. Cis lesbians also break the rules of normative gender all the time. Of course they love us.

birth of venus, but make him trans 🏳️‍⚧️🌿🐚

The “universal” part is the bit they particularly hate btw. Conservatives are very concerned with “the free rider” problem, “why should someone get a free ride when I work hard?” Removing “Universal” from the name stops that.

🔭 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Francesco Antonucci ap260622

Oh I’m sorry did someone steal your stealings?